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Iraqi Engineers Revitalize Marshes That Hussein Had Drained
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| Contributor | Tony82 |
| Last Edited | Tony82 Oct 16, 2003 11:01pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Saturday, October 11, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "The water is our life," Kerkush said as he gazed at the marsh that now comes within a few feet of his house and stretches as far as the eye can see. "It is a gift from God to have it back."
A dozen years after Saddam Hussein ordered the vast marshes of southeastern Iraq drained, transforming idyllic wetlands into a barren moonscape to eliminate a hiding place for Shiite Muslim political opponents, Iraqi engineers have turned on the spigot again.
The flow is not what it once was -- new dams have weakened the mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers that feed the marshes -- but the impact has been profound. As the blanket of water gradually expands, it is quickly nourishing plants, animals and a way of life for Marsh Arabs that Hussein had tried so assiduously to extinguish...
The marsh has once again assumed its omnipresent role in the village...
"We are starting to live like we used to, not the way Saddam wanted us to live." |
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